Nicola Judge

Nicola is working on the synthesis of novel nanofiber scaffolds for nerve regeneration. She has her MChem in Chemistry with a specialization in materials from The University of Edinburgh (2019). She completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Heise at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland with a thesis titled “Development of Ring Opening Miniemulsion Polymerisation of N-Carboxyanhyride Monomers for the Formation of Polypeptide Nanoparticles“. She enjoys hiking, baking and spending time with her dog Bojangles when she is not educating the lab on British slang.

Publications:

Judge, N., Georgiou, P. G., Bissoyi, A., Ahmad, A., Heise, A., Gibson M,I.; ‘High Molecular Weight Polyproline as a Potential Biosourced Ice Growth Inhibitor: Synthesis, Ice Recrystallization Inhibition, and Specific Ice Face Binding’, Biomacromolecules, 2023

Wang, L., Zhongmin, G., Ho, Y., Zhou, J., Judge, N., Li, Y., Wang, W., Jinyao, L., Wang, Y.; ‘ Block Co-PolyMOC Micelles and Structural Synergy as Composite Nanocarriers’, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, 14, 30546.

Judge, N., Pavlovic, D., Moldenhauer, E., Clarke, P., Brannigan, R., Heise, A.; ‘Influence of the block copolypeptide surfactant structure on the size of polypeptide nanoparticles obtained by mini emulsion polymerisation’, Polymer Chemistry, 2022, 13, 2822-2830.

Judge, N., Wang, L., Ho, Y., Wang, Y.; ‘Molecular Engineering of Metal-Organic Cycles/Cages for Drug Delivery’, Macromolecular Research, 2018, 26, 1074-1084.